Word: painful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fascinating 2½-hour dramatic typhoon in which John Osborne's voice-splenetic, grieving, raging-is heard with more furious personal intensity than at any time since Look Back in Anger. As a defeated solicitor for whom life in the modern world has become a playing field of pain, Nicol Williamson, 28, gives a performance of epic dimensions and phenomenal resourcefulness...
...risen to the top only to hang there, skewered. The poor little rich girl whom he had to marry because she was pregnant is now a bored little rich bitch, played by Jean Simmons with just enough sting to paralyze a mate but not quite enough to kill the pain. "It isn't what you expected, is it?" she says knowingly, then as an idle, needling afterthought: "Have you ever had a colored girl?" Joe answers no to both questions. What he's got is a shaky executive job at his father-in-law's wool factory...
...Washington inevitably stirred speculation that Johnson was not recovering as rapidly as he should. Apprehension over his condition quickened after Lyndon flew to Houston to hear Old Friend Billy Graham preach at a mammoth revival meeting. Next day reporters learned that the President was tired and had some muscular pain in his right side...
...some demonstrators as they marched around the White House-"Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many people did you kill today?"-suggested that the soul protester should take the long-suffering view of Lyndon's problems. Said he: "We've got to let the President tell us about his pain...
Erhardt himself plays Andrew Undershaft, and does so forcefully. However, I would question his interpretation. Undershaft should be an obnoxious man. When the audience is forced to admit that what he says is true, it should be regretfully, as Shaw puts it, "with a pain in the self-esteem." We should begrudge the nobility of Undershaft's thought. As Erhardt played the role, his manners were already too noble, his voice too Stentorian...